Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Data is a Utility - we said earlier this year

In the Era of everywhere connectivity of everything or many things around us, the machines or even things will find their buddy and makes the humans life easy. I think about the ‘last man’ again here, as the next society will be heavily based on data as medium of connectivity and communication, and many of the services for ordinary purpose, and also for critical purpose, would be based on data. So everyone or even the ‘last one’ who is vital to society need to be connected. Therefore data has its own political streak, like power, water or roads. As we develop infrastructure for power, road etc. for reaching out to remote underdeveloped villages, so the need for data too, and this benefit should be there on political matrix.

It’s not that we are silent here, the ‘Govt of India’ is running programs to connect villages on fiber network under the project named ‘NOFN’ --National Optical Fibre Network

Lets see whats CommScope has come up with their view on data .......from the below blog of CommScope

Wireless Connectivity—Equal to Water, Power, Gas?

In some ways, the wireless revolution of the past 20 years has been one of history’s quietest innovations. Consider how quickly and effortlessly wireless users have adopted the once-fantastical notion of universal connectivity in an affordable, pocket-sized device. In less than a single generation, the world has evolved from a tethered telephone to a wireless communication device that puts the world at your fingertips—at any time and any place.

The only things that have grown faster than wireless adoption are user expectations for instant access and reliable, fast performance. Dead zones, when discovered, are regarded with surprise and disappointment. A dropped call is considered embarrassing. For such a young technology, cellular communication has already cultivated a nearly universal expectation of ubiquitous, high-quality, high-speed performance, indoors and out—a trend that will only accelerate with the future generations.

For this reason, many consider in-building wireless and its associated infrastructure as another utility — that is, a modern convenience that has become as accepted and expected as electricity and running water. Users are not interested in knowing where the wires are laid (Yes, there are a lot of wires in wireless networks) or how the pipes are arranged. They simply expect the convenience of seamless, invisible, universal access and performance. So, it has become for cellular service.

James Donovan is Vice President of the CommScope Infrastructure Academy. James joined CommScope in 1993 and has held positions in Sales, Technical, Marketing, Training and Business Development and served most recently as VP of Digital and Creative Services for CommScope. James oversees the CommScope Infrastructure Academy, which is CommScope’s partner and customer training platform. Prior to joining the company, he held positions at GEC, ITT and Alcatel. He holds a Masters Degree in Engineering and a BSc Honors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Two of the nation’s largest industries are headed directly toward each other, and the result of this impending collision could give a select group of companies oversight over all aspects of Americans’content creation and consumption. It’s a slowmoving trend that could have dramatic ramifications for a wide range of players, from content providers to technology vendors.The first tangible evidence of this shift happened seven years ago when cable giant Comcast purchased media behemoth NBCUniversal, a corporate structure that continues to give one of the nation’s largest pay TV providers direct insight into the ongoing evolution of the media landscape. But Comcast isn’t alone.Today, AT&T stands to soon join Comcast at the intersection of telecom and entertainment if its pending acquisition of Time Warner is approved by regulators. That blockbuster transaction would combine one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies – with control over pay-TV, wireless and wired internet services – with one of the nation’s most well known media giants.Time Warner, after all, is the owner of HBO, the brand behind the massively popular show “Game ofThrones.” And other companies may well enter this same nexus; already Verizon has been investing in media properties and advertising technologies, while Facebook has begun investing in both media content and telecommunications networks. This Fierce eBrief will investigate this collision pointFind more from FierceCable HERE

Saturday, 4 November 2017

WiFi is primarily known for free access, and likely to be same for the end user despite of its improvement of QoS and seemless access like cellular technologies, as may be in the case of next gen WiFi.

The reality of WiFi is that there going to be a continuous decrease in "pay by end user" model empirically by 10-20% since 2015.

Mature Technology.........

We all know Wi-Fi is mature technology with a deep rooted ecosystem. Wi-Fi, essentilly for wireless LAN connectivity, has come parallel to cellular like access technology. Wi-Fi access points keeping the pace for data speed and much more to counter the cellular like for QoS and QoE etc.

Space for opportunities and innovations........

But Wi-Fi is not essentially for access like cellular, so there is a space available here when bringing it for access technology alternative, though better to say - in current scenarios associative to cellular. The space for augmented ecosystem - like using bigdata, analytics, OTT provisioning, user experience app etc.